Whether she is creating grand body-shields – embellished with tooth-flossers, flowers, and vitamins – or putting a personal and sublime twist on the composition of monuments, Amy Brener’s bright and revolutionary sculptures suspend and elevate elements of our everyday life.
AVIV is the 15-year-old Toronto singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who writes emotional and captivating D.I.Y. pop that is both nostalgic and foreboding. Now presenting the new visuals for her most recent track "You Feel Like Depression," the singer delves into the myriad sentiments of "self-guilt, self-blame, and an overall sense of failure."
With the concept of the metaverse and digital existences becoming increasingly relevant and popular to explore, artist LLYAZEL combines digital processes with pop culture references to create 3D environments that tease this concept of an online presence. With a focus on visually depicting futures in which humanity evolves into the 3D, their work helps us speculate and consider what is waiting ahead for us in terms of not only artistic endeavours, but our own existences and fate.
Weaved with a serene visual direction emitting poetic temperance on the story of clay and pottery artists of India, Mati Manas is a film of a story untold.
“It’s about physical engagement in slimy and gloopy material, creating a sense of suffocation, turning the body into a kind of visceral mound of slapstick energy” - William Cobbing
Moulded with alien and deepwater figurines, HUGO KREIT crafts contemporary jewellery, making art to wear better accessible for the growing subcultures.
Munich-based artist Shejtano plays with blending the human and the divine, much like a year 3000 re-edition of the Divine Comedy.
Celebrated visual artist Helin Sahin creates digital sculptures which challenge the fabric of our reality, utilizing natural elements to reflect and expand upon her own subconscious, as well as transform elements of her past and memory into the surreal future of 3D art.
Tokyo-based nail art revolutionary, Tomoya Nakagawa, sculpts brilliance for the tips of your fingers. Bubbles, tentacles, and cuffs bloom from the nailbed, creating adornments that have grown and evolved in both intricacy and length.
It’s a one-way ticket to the uncanny valley when you enter the hybrid realm of Nicoleta Mureş’ pieces. Combining elements from our physical reality with the exaggerated, 3D animated avatars offers an alternative look at the issues that plague us.
“The transmission of wave energy requires the quasi-elastic collision of some elementary particles of matter, which determines the direction and speed of the transmission, and this substance, which plays a decisive role in the propagation of waves, is the medium.”
Meuko!Meuko! reverses this cause-effect relationship of the physical level, in her approach it is the «wave» that determines the «medium».
With the artistic world so dominated by digital art and processes nowadays, especially since the pandemic made exhibitions and physical art less viable, Agata Ingarden’s conceptual sculptures feel fresh and exciting, providing fictional narratives that bare crossovers with our own existences.
Huarealism - the art world of Alisa Gorshenina, that is conscious and intuitive, capturing the view on her life in rural Russia through peculiar lenses.
Bby Eco on the play between harmony and tension in electronic music: “I can feel like a vibrant leaf - absorbing the air and letting go when I need.”
y3000w creates microworlds as frames of experiences, looking for relationships of coexistence with each element of the natural or digital world through an emotive approach to photography.
Synthesizing the “darkest primary emotions” into celestial lights and virtual realms: 3D artist Sara Dibiza gives insights into her meditative visualizers, collaborative design, and creating her own video game.
As a new age tech savvy fashionista, Piper ZY brings futuristic art to wear accessories into digitally augmented fashion.
Directed by Kamal Swaroop, Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) employs a nonlinear narrative, entwined with surreal absurdity. With many of the themes as a direct satire of Bollywood film-making, psychedelic sound effects and cinematically tryppy scenes, the movie takes you to the dystopia within the utopia and vice versa.
Sybil Montet’s CGI imagery and cinematic narrative open up about the experiential potential of virtual space through magical realism and the poetics of simulation. For Coeval she presents a special preview of three new works: Skyscraper, Flood and Safeguard.
Tommaso Montenesi Posch and Marzia Comuzio reemerge with another editorial piece, Epanortosi – descending into a quiet chasm that questions presence and embraces the solitary. My voice, can you hear it? The sign, can you read it?
